Name: Black Tulsans Work to Rebuild ‘Black Wall Street’ Decades After Massacre | WSJ
Uploaded: 2021-05-29T02:03:48.000Z
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- What you really want to see is Black Wall Street.

thriving with hundreds of Black-owned businesses

and that you're on the grounds of what used to be

something the world had never seen before.

I've always felt a connection to Black Wall Street

in the area that came to be known as Black Wall Street.

They're advocating for more Black-owned businesses

and property ownership, amid gentrification

that's reshaping the historic Black neighborhood.

The Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma

But 1921, white mobs attacked the district

Researchers say the damages filed in court cases decades ago

total over 22 million in today's dollars.

But this likely underestimates the actual losses,

as not everyone had full insurance coverage,

But local historians say the district went through a decline

as desegregation led to outward migration,

displaced Black-owned businesses and residents.

Today, Greenwood consists of about four city blocks.

There's not much housing stock in the neighborhood,

- The Historic Greenwood Chamber of Commerce

owns the last 10 buildings known as Black Wall Street.

So we're still doing what our ancestors did.

- [Narrator] While there's a growing number

of Black-owned businesses in this district,

some of the newer establishments are tenants

That's a reversal of fortune from 100 years ago

when many of the property owners were Black.

The massacre destroyed real estate assets

that could have been passed to future generations.

- Our oldest living survivor, Daddy Clark,

His photograph is on exhibit in the gallery

- [Narrator] Tulsa residents like Mechelle Brown-Burdex,

say it's important to keep telling the story

of how prosperous Black residents of Greenwood were

- We were never taught that African-Americans

and electricians, and doctors, and attorneys.

And I was shocked that we had never learned about this.

Being born in Tulsa, being raised in Tulsa,

- [Narrator] Brown-Burdex coordinates educational programs

and tours for the Greenwood Cultural Center.

- We thought that this was the perfect time

to identify and promote Black-owned businesses

Brown-Burdex has teamed up with a local co-working space

even acknowledging or recognizing the history

- [Narrator] It's clear things are changing again

A different museum called Greenwood Rising

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